LLMs prefer institutionally corroborated sources in knowledge conflicts but repetition from weaker sources reverses this preference, and a new mitigation method reduces repetition bias by up to 79% while retaining most original preferences.
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Whose Facts Win? LLM Source Preferences under Knowledge Conflicts
LLMs prefer institutionally corroborated sources in knowledge conflicts but repetition from weaker sources reverses this preference, and a new mitigation method reduces repetition bias by up to 79% while retaining most original preferences.